• Btrfs on LUKS

1. Burn LiveCD/LiveUSB with latest Arch ISO
2. Boot from LiveCD/LiveUSB
3. Download pacstrapit: curl -k https://codeload.github.com/atweiden/{pacstrapit}/{tar.gz}/{0.0.21} -o "#1-#3.#2"
4. Extract: tar xvzf pacstrapit-0.0.21.tar.gz
5. Customize variables

WARNING: failure to give appropriate values could cause catastrophic data loss and system instability.

Defaults:

cd pacstrapit-0.0.21 && $EDITOR pacstrapit

Done. Ready to run pacstrapit:

./pacstrapit

With logging:

./pacstrapit 2>&1 | tee pacstrapit.log

If the script exits with an error, it's best to reboot and start fresh.

Before setting _ssh to 1...

On the control machine:

Make keys directory.

$ mkdir -p ~/keys

Generate ssh keys.

$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -b 521 -f ~/keys/id_ed25519

Get Electrum.

$ cd && curl -k https://codeload.github.com/spesmilo/{electrum}/{tar.gz}/{${_electrum_version}} -o "#1-#3.#2"
$ tar xvzf electrum-${_electrum_version}.tar.gz
$ cd electrum-${_electrum_version}
$ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's#/usr/bin/python#/usr/bin/python2#g'
$ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's#/usr/bin/env python#/usr/bin/env python2#g'

Pick an Electrum address for signing.

$ address_for_signing=$(./electrum listaddresses | sed -n '2p' | tr -d '[:punct:]' | awk '{print $1}')

$ echo ${address_for_signing} > ~/keys/electrum.pub

$ ./electrum signmessage ${address_for_signing} "$(cat ~/keys/id_ed25519.pub)" > ~/keys/id_ed25519.pub.sig

Upload id_ed25519.pub, id_ed25519.pub.sig and electrum.pub to GitHub, or any other file hosting service reachable via curl.

Record the exact URL for each keyfile inside the variables section of pacstrapit.

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